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How the Mexican security minister’s slip of the tongue rankled Salvadoran President Bukele

How the Mexican security minister’s slip of the tongue rankled Salvadoran President Bukele

An apparently innocent mistake escalated into something of an international incident on Wednesday. Security Minister Omar García Harfuch’s declaration on Tuesday that a plane carrying more than 400 kilograms of cocaine came to Mexico from El...

Nicaragua’s Government Sends Warm Congratulations to Suriname’s First Female President

Nicaragua’s Government Sends Warm Congratulations to Suriname’s First Female President

Nicaragua and Suriname strengthen revolutionary ties with message of unity and friendship. Photo: National Assembly of Suriname. July 7, 2025 Hour: 5:56 pm The Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of Nicaragua congratulates Jennifer...

Trump’s secret weapon against Socialism

Trump’s secret weapon against Socialism

By Cliff Kincaid July 16, 2025 The Democrats pretend to have the solution to poverty – socialism – but the Republicans have a living example of how to escape it – Vice President J.D. Vance, who achieved success in life with the help of family...

Relatives of Exiled Journalists Harassed in Nicaragua

Relatives of Exiled Journalists Harassed in Nicaragua

Police harassment at the homes of relatives of exiled journalists has intensified. / File photo: Confidencial Exiled journalists and their families in Nicaragua face harassment, smear campaigns, and threats, warns a report. By Confidencial HAVANA...

HRC59: Amidst ongoing state of emergency, El Salvador must review legality of mass detentions

HRC59: Amidst ongoing state of emergency, El Salvador must review legality of mass detentions

On 30 June, Leonor Arteaga, representative of Fundacion Para el Debido Proceso (DPLF), delivered a joint statement with ISHR for the adoption of El Salvador’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Arteaga urged the Salvadoran government to establish an...

DHS will end deportation protections for over 70,000 Nicaraguans and Hondurans

DHS will end deportation protections for over 70,000 Nicaraguans and Hondurans

The Trump administration is eliminating Temporary Protected Status protections for 76,000 migrants from Honduras and Nicaragua, claiming significant improvements in both countries. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on...

Ending deportation protections for Hondurans, Nicaraguans sparks fear

Ending deportation protections for Hondurans, Nicaraguans sparks fear

The Trump administration's ending of deportation protections for those who have fled Honduras and Nicaragua shows "no discernment," an immigration policy expert told OSV News — while a pastor at one Philadelphia parish said the moves have sparked...

Amazon warehouse workers lose jobs after Trump's immigration crackdown: 'We have done everything legally'

Amazon warehouse workers lose jobs after Trump's immigration crackdown: 'We have done everything legally'

Boxes are selected on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday at Amazon's fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., December 2, 2024. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters Daphnee Poteau, a Haitian who came to the U.S in 2023, began working for Amazon...

Nicaraguan priest arrested because his driver was allegedly drunk

Nicaraguan priest arrested because his driver was allegedly drunk

The Christ of the Mercy statue in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. (Photo: Getty/iStock) A Catholic priest critical of the Nicaraguan government has been arrested and held incommunicado after his driver was accused of drunkenness. According to the...

'Just makes things harder' | Thousands of immigrants lose protected status after DHS revokes Temporary Protected status for Hondurans and Nicaraguans

'Just makes things harder' | Thousands of immigrants lose protected status after DHS revokes Temporary Protected status for Hondurans and Nicaraguans

Bridge Refugee Services Inc. assists immigrants living in the U.S. The organization says the change in legal status puts people's future in limbo. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — People in East Tennessee are reacting to the federal government's plan to roll...

‘It’s just unfair’: What end of TPS means for Nicaraguans and Hondurans in the US

‘It’s just unfair’: What end of TPS means for Nicaraguans and Hondurans in the US

Virginia Guevara came to the United States from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in the 1990s, before the country was granted Temporary Protected Status following the devastating destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Guevara, 48 at the time, found...

Religiosas en México acompañan a migrantes ‘atrapados’ por políticas de EU

Religiosas en México acompañan a migrantes ‘atrapados’ por políticas de EU

Hermanas católicas apoyan a quienes no pueden avanzar ni regresar a sus países. Por Rhina Guidos/ Global Sisters Report Es difícil saber cuántos han pasado por el mural en el albergue administrado por las Hermanas Josefinas en Ciudad de México y...

Nicaraguan Filmmaker Premieres “Profane Prose” Short Film

Nicaraguan Filmmaker Premieres “Profane Prose” Short Film

Still from the Nicaraguan documentary “Una prosa profana” (Profane Prose) by filmmaker Juan Vílchez // Photo: Courtesy The film explores themes of “power” and “guilt”, inspired by the “spirit of rebellion” in Prosas Profanas by Ruben Darío, says...

Expertos: El fin del TPS para Honduras y Nicaragua muestra una ‘falta de discernimiento’ y provoca miedo

Expertos: El fin del TPS para Honduras y Nicaragua muestra una ‘falta de discernimiento’ y provoca miedo

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Co-President Rosario Murillo, are seen in file photo. Under the Ortega-Murillo regime, Nicaragua has seen a brutal crackdown on the Catholic Church and faces a human rights crisis, as does...

SHPO seeks mayors' help identifying more Guam historic sites for National Register

SHPO seeks mayors' help identifying more Guam historic sites for National Register

State Historic Preservation Officer Patrick Lujan on Wednesday asked mayors to help identify historically significant sites and structures in their village for possible submission to the National Register of Historic Places. Lujan also offered a...

Immigration crackdown: Trump revoking TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans

Immigration crackdown: Trump revoking TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans

The Trump administration is ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Hondurans and Nicaraguans, potentially affecting 76,000 people. TPS allows recipients to live and work in the U.S. due to unsafe conditions in their home countries. Some have...

Protected Status Ends for Nicaragua, Honduras

Protected Status Ends for Nicaragua, Honduras

By Ariana Figueroa, States Newsroom WASHINGTON — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ended temporary protections Monday for nationals from Nicaragua and Honduras, opening up roughly 76,000 people to deportations by early September. The...

DHS Quietly Ends TPS For Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Reversing Decades Of Protection

DHS Quietly Ends TPS For Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Reversing Decades Of Protection

By News Americas Staff Writer News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Weds. July 9, 2025: In a sweeping move that could impact tens of thousands of Central American immigrants living in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has formally...

Díaz-Balart addresses Nicaragua crisis; celebrates new legislation impacting Miami-Dade

Díaz-Balart addresses Nicaragua crisis; celebrates new legislation impacting Miami-Dade

Mario Díaz-Balart, a long-serving member of the U.S. Congress representing Florida's 26th District, has been vocal on several key issues through his social media presence. Born in Fort Lauderdale in 1961 and currently residing in Miami,...

‘Cruel and unjust’: Hondurans, Nicaraguans in S.F. reel after Trump ends immigration protections

‘Cruel and unjust’: Hondurans, Nicaraguans in S.F. reel after Trump ends immigration protections

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Hondurans and Nicaraguans in San Francisco are shaken after President Donald Trump announced the end of “temporary protected status” for some...

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